Full disclosure: I started drafting this 2 months ago. Then life got in the way. As it turns out, none of this stuff has changed, so I’m going to go ahead and publish it.
Recently, President Biden exclaimed that the “pandemic is over.” I kinda wonder if the public health talking heads knew he was going to say that, but I digress. But if the pandemic is truly over, we certainly aren’t acting like it. Here are three major examples of that:
1. Vaccine mandates and recommendations continue… for what reason?
1a. Universities requiring the bivalent booster!
Another article already clearly made the point that university vaccine mandates make no sense because the are scientifically unjustified and unethical (this article is replete with scientific references) https://brownstone.org/articles/university-vaccine-mandates-must-end-now/.
Many universities have already backed off of their vaccine mandates:
https://nocollegemandates.com/
The data on the bivalent booster either doesn’t exist or is based on a study of 8 mice (Dr. Paul Offit even makes that point
But as Dr. Marty Makary points out, there are now universities requiring the bivalent booster… you know, the one that wasn’t tested on any actual data? I’ll let these experts’ tweets speak for that…
1b. ACIP recommending the COVID-19 vaccine be included on the childhood schedule… based on zero data.
Now an emergency use authorization vaccine (more on that later) is on the childhood schedule. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cdc-advisory-committee-votes-add-covid-19-vaccine-immunization-schedules-children-adults
As Rep Tom Massie points out in this article, while this doesn’t create a requirement or mandates for school children, the CDC schedule is often used as the basis of school requirements. States differ on the availability of exemptions from these mandates. That is a major implication of this policy. Don’t be deceived by those saying this is about equity and access – this will translate into a mandate, and some school districts have already attempted that.
But now about that pesky emergency use authorization (EUA) only… apparently it doesn’t matter? See Kathryn Huwig’s substack on that point:
https://kathrynhuwig.substack.com/p/the-acip-is-adding-covid-to-the-childhood/comments?publication_id=938432&post_id=79596649&isFreemail=true
For more discussion of this topic, check out Dr. Paul Alexander’s substack
As well as Dr. Robert Malone’s
To points 1a and 1b above, again, what is the point? Its already been clearly established (summarized in the Brownstone link above) that the vaccine does not prevent transmission or infection. Even the CDC and Fauci are readily admitting that. So then, the vaccine is being recommended or mandated… to prevent hospitalization or death? But as pointed out in Steve Kirsch’s recent substack, the infection fatality rate in children is virtually nil.
And as that substack points out as well as a previous one by me, there is significant risk associated with the vaccine in young people.
If the pandemic is over, why are these bodies continuing vaccine mandates and recommendations that could eventually become mandates. Let’s think this through. If the pandemic is over, but the virus is present, that means its in its endemic stage, just like influenza (which I have also written about in a previous substack). Flu shots are on the CDC pediatric schedule, but are only required of medical professionals (and from what I’m told, exemptions were easier to obtain). The difference is that the amount of data used to justify these policies is almost nil, these vaccines have not been adequately safety tested, there are huge concerns about their safety and a one-size-fits-all policy, and these vaccines don’t do what they were sold as doing. The rush to push these vaccines on society with no knowledge of their long-term effects and no long-term outlook on the pandemic/endemic is not good policy.
2. Masks still required?!
Hold up, you say. The CDC dropped their requirement of wearing masks in healthcare facilities. I have yet to see a facility that was requiring them before September 2022 not be requiring them anymore. One office even required me to take off my well-fitted, triple layer cloth mask for one of their “surgical masks” that was essentially tissue paper with elastic on it. But think about that… the effectiveness of the mask isn’t determined by who gives it to you, but how it is worn (see link below).
But again, studies have repeatedly shown that masks only protect the wearer and/or prevent transmission from sick people… but no one cares about science. (The references on this link haven’t been updated for several months but still makes the point with a summary of the scientific literature.)
https://nypost.com/2022/09/28/cdc-loosens-mask-mandates-for-healthcare-facilities/
https://healthfreedomohio.org/all_about_masks
And an interesting side note by Dr. Makary on masks in restaurants… sorry, I went to find one tweet and screenshotted a bunch.
3. Vaccines are still required to get into the country… but other countries have loosened restrictions?
The tyrannical Canadian government loosened its vaccine requirements for incoming travelers. Let me repeat that. The country that arrested an open-air preacher loosened travel requirements before the United States, the “land of the free and home of the brave”. Refer back to point 1 for why this makes no sense scientifically…
Arrest of open air preacher https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/artur-dawid-pawlowski-1.6019536
Canada relaxes travel restriction: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2022/09/26/canada-lifts-covid-vaccine-mandate-for-international-travelers/?sh=3941592d6576
US requirements https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/international-travel-during-covid19.html
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